BLACK PEOPLE CAN’T DANCE

Image by Lilah Benetti.

A short film about dance.

“Afro is not linear like ballet, ballet everyone does the exact same step the exact same way, with afro, zouk or gwoka, everyone does the same step differently because we all have our own culture, our own personality.
We vibe the same, but we don’t do it exactly the same way, You look at any Instagram video, you see three black people dancing together, none of them is dancing exactly the same…” Amaryllis

Contributor: Amaryllis
Interviewer: Rungano
Starring: Chantal Bala
Directed: Lilah Benetti
Cinematography: Sam Biddle
Assistance: Abdul Yusuf
Produced: Ivy Mutuku
Curation: Kholisile Dhliwayo

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the people of the Eastern Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.